James Peggs, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, to Joseph Angus, Baptist Mission, Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London, 3 June 1842.

Ilkeston Derbyshire

June 3 1842

My dear Sir

   This is the time that kings go forth to war & I am proposing to send about 150 books to different stations in the Bengal Boundary—I write to enquire whether if I send them per Nottingham Railway by the end of next week I shall be in time for your remittances on Missionaries going to Calcutta—Can you get this Circular in the Baptist Mag—I am sorry I could not get to Kettering—I have just returned from Bedford etc

                     Yours Sir

                                 J Peggs

Text: Timothy Whelan, Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009), pp. 235-36 (annotated version); also MAW, Box 39 (BMS 520), John Rylands University Library of Manchester. James Peggs (1793-1850) served under the General Baptist Missionary Society in India, 1821-1825, before serving as pastor of the General Baptist church in Ilkeston. An advertisement for his Gems for Serious Christians appeared in the Baptist Magazine 34 (1842), 482. The BMS held its Jubilee Meeting at Kettering, 31 May-2 June 1842.